Gorgias
by:
Plato (author)
Donald J. Zeyl (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780872200166 (0872200167)
Publish date: December 1st 1986
Publisher: Hackett Pub Co
Pages no: 132
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
History,
Academic,
Literature,
Cultural,
Politics,
Philosophy,
College,
Greece,
Theory,
Ancient
This book is a masterpiece. It includes a critical text, and a line-by-line philological commentary. But even the reader without Greek will learn an enormous amount about Plato and related topics by reading it alongside a translation -- just skip all the entries dealing with purely philological mat...
It is difficult to put a date of composition to such a text, though internal comments can assist us with determining when it was written. While I do not consider myself an expert on Plato, I would consider this text to be one of his earlier writings as he seems to be recording an earlier conversatio...
14 years ago
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